This week the team is snowed in. So let’s talk about the weather. Blizzards, thunderclouds, sandstorms and, er, night-time? All of it classifies as weather to us if it appears in a game.

Adam likes being warm while looking out at the frosty cold in survival game The Long Dark. And Brendan likes the blizzards of Viking strategy game Northgard and the foggy, windless days of sailing sim Sailaway. John, however, thinks the weather should stop. There’s no reason why everything should be covered in smog, nor our hands and feet detached from the cliffside by Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s annoying rain.

But we've also been playing lots. Assassin's Creed: Origins, Vagante, All Walls Must Fall, Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength, Street Fighter V, and Where The Water Tastes Like Wine - all come under scrutiny.

Links:

The joy of Witcher 3’s great outdoors: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/06/16/the-joy-of-the-witcher-3s-great-outdoors/

Adam and Brendan’s road trip in The Crew: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/20/the-crew-free-road-trip/

Weather watching in The Long Dark: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/03/the-long-dark-weather/

Northgard’s early access review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/27/northgard-review-early-access/

Have you played… Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/20/have-you-played-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain/

Sailing the Northwest Passage in Sailaway: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/05/04/sailing-sim-northwest-passage/

Sailaway floats out of early access: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/27/sailaway-released/

All is Lost is about a competent man: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/

Hell in the Pacific is about two incompetent men: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063056/

Games don’t get Thunderstorms right (supporter post): https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/19/heres-why-games-dont-get-thunderstorms-right/

Have you played… Proteus? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/04/26/have-you-played-proteus/

Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles has great storms: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/20/yonder-the-cloud-catcher-chronicles-review/

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/28/where-the-water-tastes-like-wine-review/

All Walls Must Fall is also out: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/23/quirky-time-travelling-nightclub-crawling-tactical-rpg-all-walls-must-fall-busts-out-of-early-access-today/

Vagante is also finally out: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/23/4-years-later-platform-roguelike-vagante-launches/
Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength chapter one review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/26/orwell-ignorance-is-strength-review/

Assassin’s Creed: Origin’s tour guide teaches badly: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/22/assassins-creed-origins-discovery-tour-review/

And it covers up the willies: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/21/assassins-creed-origins-discovery-tour-censors-all-the-nudey-statues/

Three days of Blanka in Street Fighter V: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/02/27/blanka-slate-starting-over-again-in-street-fighter-v/

Adam’s pretentious Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture article: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/04/18/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-englishness/